Quotes About Consolation

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

Old people like to give good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

good people, our belief that what happens to us and our loved ones is what God has willed provides a human being, even when suffering loss, with a great measure of consolation.

And the thought consoled me, as it does now: everything you believe you have imagined is real. You have only to outlive it.

We are beasts and this is our consolation.

Suicide is in fact a consoling thought. Suicide is the secret door by which you can exit the world at any time—it's wholly up to you. For who can prevent you, if suicide is truly your wish? Who has the moral authority

It is the easiest tie to break—my Friend consoled me—the tie that was badly frayed to begin with.

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.

One physician may gravely exaggerate an illness and give up hope altogether. Another may ignorantly declare that there is no illness and that no treatment is necessary, thus deceiving the patient with false consolation. You may call the first one pessimistic and the second one optimistic. Both are equally dangerous.

When he hung over the death-bed of his infant son Ibrahim, resignation to the Will of God was exhibited in his conduct under this keenest of afflictions; and the hope of soon rejoining his child in paradise was his consolation. When he followed him to the grave, he invoked his spirit, in the awful examination of the tomb, to hold fast to the foundations of the faith, the Unity of God, and his own mission as a Prophet.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

It must have been quite terrible for you, my dear,' I said, giving her a companionable and comforting pat on the head.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.

Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation.

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

You console me a little, but only a little,' said Poirot.

but it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive—to some woman.

Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here.

Until then he had made do with an inferior local piano, which, in Sand's words, brought him more vexation than consolation, and had been abandoned in Palma. He quickly put the finishing touches to his Preludes, and by January 22 had sent the manuscript to Fontana with instructions to make a fair copy for Pleyel, who had agreed to pay Chopin the large sum of 2,000 francs for the entire set. That agreement soon started to unravel, as we shall presently discover.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

It is not the consolations we seek but the Consoler, not their sweetness but the sweet Savior, not their tenderness but him who is the delight of heaven and earth. In this spirit we must resolve to stand fast in a holy love of God even though we may never find any consolation throughout our whole life.